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THE 4-H FOCUS June 2019

4-H Families and Friends,

School is almost out for summer! In just a few short weeks we will be spending five days and four nights with over 300 of our closest friends at Loudoun-Fauquier 4-H Junior Camp in Front Royal. We’re excited to learn by doing through various classes, recreation and fantastic evening programs! The following week we’ll be headed to Virginia Tech for 4-H State Congress. Seven of our senior 4-Hers will participate in a variety of leadership activities, educational workshops and social events. On top of that, three of our attendees will be competing with their presentations at the state level, so we wish them the best of luck! As we head into July and Fair becomes a big focus for many of our members, we hope you continue to work hard on your project books and finish up all of your requirements. We’re looking forward to another amazing summer!

Kim Monroe

4-H Program Technician

kmonroe@vt.edu

Carly Wright

4-H Extension Agent

carlymg@vt.edu

You’re Invited!

Loudoun County 4-H Barn Night

Saturday, June 22nd @ 7:00pm Green Barn (Loudoun Fairgrounds)

RSVP via https://www.signupgenius.com/go/5080845A8A623A46-4hbarn by June 19th!

Senior Spotlight on...

Ms. Carly Campbell

Graduating Class: Loudoun Valley High School 2019

College: Virginia Tech Honors College

Major: Agricultural Sciences

4-H Club Membership: Goat Club (10 years), Beef Club (4 years) and Rabbit Club (3 years)

4-H Leadership Positions: President, Vice President, Treasurer and Historian

4-H Activities: 4-H Day at the Capitol, Goat and Beef Showmanship Clinics, PA Farm Show Trip and Round Robin Showmanship Competition

Outside Activities: Loudoun County Fair Youth Committee, Youth Fair Superintendent, Loudoun County Teacher Cadet, LVHS National Honor Society, National Foreign Language Hon-or Society, Partners Club, LVHS Service Initiative Club, St. Francis de Sales Church Member

Awards: Virginia 4-H All Star and I Dare You Award

“Thank you to Mrs. Murray, Mrs. Huddleston, Grace Bucklen and my parents for supporting me throughout my entire journey in 4-H!”

- Carly C.

Senior Spotlight

Youth for the Quality Care of Animals Training

Loudoun 4-H was excited to host a Youth for the Quality Care of Animals Training on May 29th. Approximately eighty 4-H members from across multiple counties came to the Loudoun County Fairgrounds to learn about how to provide quality care to their animal pro-jects. Station topics included record keeping, giving medication, livestock auction buyer letters and poultry showmanship.

A huge thank you to our special guest presenters, Dyllan Chapins, Corey Childs, Claire Griffith and Jon Marc Truesdale.

Event Recap

Club News

Rabbit Hopping Submitted By: Mary Grace Menuey The Loudoun County 4-H Rabbit Hopping Club called its meeting to order on May 10, 2019. We first went over our finished business which was: Apple Country Rabbit Show, where we had eight members participate in the hopping competition, Duck Sales/Race, and 4-H Day of Ser-vice, which we had four members attend. Our upcoming club events are: jump sponsorships, mock competition, Central PA Rabbit Breeders Association and Tri-County Rabbit Club of PA Rab-bit Show, which has a hopping competition of novice through intermediate straight course. Our new business was: Fair participation rules, table rules, a brief demonstration on how rabbits scan by Sarah Burns, and a lesson on jump building, jump types, and course jumps led by Alisa Hart. Overall, we had another great meeting.

Eastern Loudoun Submitted By: Kashvi Ramani and Oishee Sinha

Guten tag our fellow 4-Hers! This month’s Eastern Loudoun 4-H meeting was very ex-citing! We kicked off the meeting the way we usually do - with saying the 4-H Pledge and Pledge of Allegiance. Next, we learned a song. This week’s was a little strange, as it was about being eat-en by a boa constrictor, and, as the song progressed, “we” got closer to becoming devoured. Clas-sic Shel Silverstein! Afterward, we moved on to introducing new members. This meeting we only had one member, but he seemed excited to join our club. Then, our spring clubs gave their monthly reports. All the club meetings appeared to have gone smoothly, especially the D&D club, whose members apparently slew a dragon and set zombies on fire! If you haven’t already, we recommend that you sign up for some of our exciting clubs - you’re sure to have a great time! No-ah Esper, our Parliamentarian, even gave a report on duck sales for the 4-H Duck Race! No, unfor-tunately, they aren’t real ducks but instead are rubber ducks we raced on the 4th of May. What an exciting - and definitely unique - fundraiser!

Following the monthly project reports, project leaders gave reports on upcoming dates they’ll have for meetings. Now, though we have no more Eastern Loudoun meetings, and sadly won’t get to see each other every month, we still have our end-of-the-year Laser Tag and Ice Cream Party! If you’ve never been, it is one of the greatest 4-H events ever. We get to play laser tag in the hot sun and eat ice cream to cool off! Some members have newly become teenagers which means that we’ll get to participate in the 10-foot sundae contest! This is a team contest where we must create a sundae placed in a 10-foot long waffle cone, but we have to add ALL the toppings laid out on the table on top of it. The goal is to beat last year’s club time (which was pretty darn fast). Our club President, John Ray Morriberon, was wearing a crazy hat for a majori-ty of the meeting, but refused to tell us what for until the very end - he is going off to college next year, so he has created a new Eastern Loudoun 4-H tradition that all seniors who are attending their last meeting should wear a crazy hat. Sadly this meeting marked the end of our club’s 2018-2019 4-H meetings, but thankfully we will be able to come back in just a couple months! Can’t wait to see you all again!

Club News

Sheep Club Submitted By: Alexandra Knight This spring, the Sheep Club had a successful fundraiser selling Mom’s Apple Pie’s which were delivered Mother’s Day weekend. The Sheep Club held the initial market lamb weigh-in on May 1st and the club had 52 lambs weighed-in this year! Our next club meeting will be in Sykes Hall on June 5th at 7:00p.m. Beef Club Submitted By: Taylor Miller The Beef Club held a showmanship clinic during our May meeting on May 18th. We had the opportunity to re-weigh steers to know how much more weight needs to be gained before the Fair. We also discussed selling shirts as a fundraiser. Fair is quickly approaching and everyone should be looking for sponsors and buyers. Our next meeting is June 19th at 7:00pm. Overlook Horse Club Submitted By: Ashley Carusi This month has been wonderful for the Overlook 4-H Horse Club. Our bake sale fundraiser was a huge success and everyone pitched in to make it really fun. Our meeting started at 7:02pm on May 22nd and 6 out of 9 members were in attendance. Unfortu-nately, we received some very sad news from one of our leaders. She has suffered a great loss in her family and we are committed to planting a grove of trees in honor of the late family member. The beginning of our meeting was used to brainstorm some more ideas for our demos at the Fair. After that, we looked at some possible music to use for our dressage demo. Our educational activity was discussing and practicing safety around horses. Our meeting adjourned at 8:01pm. Temple Hall Submitted By: Jack Barfield Can you believe there is less than 2 months before the Fair? I’m guessing all clubs are real-ly getting excited! Temple Hall had their May business meeting at Sykes Hall. We talked about up-coming due dates and finishing up fundraisers. Good luck to all those who supported our club through the calendar raffle! Individual presentations were done on "how to draw a sheep", intra-muscular shots and giving back to the community and those in need. We are excited to be hosting a thank you dinner for our farmers that sponsor our club on June 1st! Our next club meeting is at Sykes Hall on June 5th at 7pm.

Club News

Goat Club Submitted By: Clay Grisius Goat Club’s May meeting was dedicated to Fair preparation. The club discussed our dis-play board that we’ll show at Fair. We went over the requirements for the demonstration and discussed who will lead it. Another thing the club reviewed were the forms that are needed to show at Fair. We went over what was needed for each form and the deadlines for each docu-ment. We also had our Mobile Hope Drive. Members brought in toiletries to donate to Mobile Hope and the club packaged them to donate. Lastly, we had a presentation on Endangered Goat Species by Paisley Ashland. Only a few more meetings before Fair!!! Dairy Club Submitted By: Christian Gurdak On May 7th the Dairy Club met at Dogwood Farm in Purcellville at 5pm. We talked about volunteering at the upcoming Loudoun Dairy Day at the Loudoun Farm Museum on June 1st. Also, once school gets out we will meet up at Brookfield Farm to start working with our calves for the Fair. After the meeting members stayed and worked with Dr. Gast and Mrs. Potts on Dairy Judging with the cows at Dogwood Farm. Our next meeting will be June 18th at 7pm at Brookfield Farm on Harmony Church Rd. Student Auto Racing Submitted By: John Enloe Hey everyone, this week we replaced our engine head. We bought a 4 cylinder replace-ment engine head, since our engine had broken its camshaft in the race. This week we also creat-ed an advertisement banner, a logo and a website; https://loudounser.weebly.com. We are pre-paring for our race in Pittsburgh in October. This involves testing the car, looking into upgrading items on the car and working on promoting the car more in fundraisers and our new website. Though, as summer is coming up, we will be meeting less frequently. Leaps & Squeaks Submitted By: Sabrina Marvil

At our May meeting, Leaps & Squeaks presented our presentations on various rabbit relat-ed topics. We had presentations on showmanship, rabbit body types, the origins of Easter and many more. Members split into two groups so that some could present while others walked around to various tables to receive presentations. We had a community service activity on the nineteenth of May at Tractor Supply to gather pet supplies to donate to the shelter. Coming up on the first of June we have a car wash at Roy Rogers as our last fundraiser of the year.

Club News

Alpaca Submitted By: Emmy Moore Our May business meeting ended with a scrapbooking party, where we all made some pages to add to our alpaca scrapbook. We hope to finish in time to enter our book at Fair! We also met a couple of our new Alpaca Club members! This month’s work meeting focused on herd health. We weighed alpacas and gave shots to them. We are very proud of Addyson, who competed at MAPACA. It was challenging because there were 60 other 4-H members in six competitions. There was showmanship, obstacles, egg and spoon, Gambler’s Choice, public relations and costume. Addyson and her alpaca were dressed as Nemo and Dory! We are looking forward to more practice time when school is out so that we will be ready for Fair!

Chefs & Stitches Submitted By: Adrianna Evans

On May 4th, members of the 4-H Chefs and Stitches Club learned how to sew and stuff star-fish pillows. First, we chose the material of our choice and Rose Ferraro and Emily Swiger, our leaders, helped us cut out the star-fish pattern. Next, we sewed front and back pieces together and stuffed the pillow! We stuffed our pillow until it was nice and big and then we sewed the re-maining section of the pillow by hand. The pillows were beautiful and we all loved making this project.

In our next meeting in June we are going to learn how to make pizzas from scratch. Can't wait!

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